Legal Opinion
Murphy v. District of Columbia
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided January 11, 1952No. 1143PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CAYTON, Chief Judge.
Sitting without a jury the Juvenile 'Court found appellant to be the father of a child born out of wedlock to a married woman and entered an order requiring him to support the child.
Appellant questions the constitutionality of the Act under which he was charged. Public Law 917, Chapter 1225, 81st Congress, 2d Session, approved January 11, 1951, 64 Stat. 1240. He points out that the child was born prior to the passage of the Act, when married women admittedly ■had no right to lodge a complaint of this kind in Juvenile Court. He argues that the Act has been invoked…
2Cited by5 opinions
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